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| When you lowkey understand Reki and it hurst you. ._. i hope they will resolve it and be buddies for sure. ^^ |
| What a heart-wrenching episode. I understand the feeling for falling behind others, causing you to lose your passion. This hit too close to home. I feel so bad for Reki, just hope that Reki and Langa's friendship is forever tainted.  |
| It hits close to home when you feel you're falling far behind against a close friend. As usual, Adam is confronted by Inspector Kiriko in politics, and it'd be easy given his area of influence to ward off enemies. Proposing a tournament "to determine who's the best" in such a time as this, you can tell how "rushed" Adam wants to do this proposition before being found out by authorities, and asking his subordinates to be scapegoats (even his personal assistant Tadashi) to hold this out. I'd swear that Cherry Blossom and Joe's comedic mockery is still funny. But both and Adam being old friends, that...shouldn't be a surprise given the history behind the trio's feud. BUT...between Reki and Langa, from best buds to tainted friendship. Skate-boarding vs. snowboarding, a parallel between the two, it's obvious which sport works best interchangeably, and Reki feels the pinch being left behind, avoiding "S" and hitting rock bottom against an amateur with only months vs. years of experience. What a change between Reki and Langa: their roles swapped for bad, and regressing REAL FAST. Whatever Reki says now, Langa WILL NOT listen, and acting like a brat...which hits hard and cannot blame him for the discourse of events. A hard-hitting episode, for sure. |
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| Damn how can something you've seen coming from 10km away still hit so hard. You'd think I'd be ready for the inevitable mid season parting of ways but apparently not. Also I feel for Reki, I really do, but also I can't even imagine how confused Langa must be. Langa who still sees Reki as his senior in skating, who doesn't know anything about Reki's childhood fried getting hurt, who approaches skating, improvement and the thrill of a challenger from a completely different perspective. That boy probably has absolutely no idea what just happened. I'd say I hope they talk it out soon but with a) this being anime and b) the most present adults in their lives being,,,,, joe and cherry,,,, ykw, i don't have high hopes lmaooo Also there's a subset of people here who apparently can't comprehend somebody being the main character and not being The Best at whatever the show is about. Like, in what way does him being an average skateboarder make him less of a MC? It's not like the show ever pretended it's going to be about Reki becoming the skating hokage or whatever, why is anybody surprised when the show went in a different direction? I'd say the show is doing the bare minimum to be slightly more complex than your standard shounen fare but man some people can't even deal with that it seem Like yes, I too want him to resolve his issues, deal with his inferiority complex and mend his relationship with Langa, but honestly? I'm not sure I want him to do that purely by getting better. That'd just feel cheap and unrealistic, and while realism is not exactly what I expect from this show, even something like 'the power of friendship' saving the day would feel more earned and thematically appropriate than a sudden power level increase. There's been a discussion in the comments about pursuing something you're good at vs something you're passionate about, and I think Reki has a chance to do both, even if one of those only as a hobby, but he'll only be able to do that with a healthier attitude towards skating. And that has to start from a place other than simply improving his skills. Anyway yanki cherry lives rent free in my head brrrrrr |
| Ngl, I cried like a baby. Seeing Reki like that really broke my heart 😭 I sensed in the last episode that something like this could happen, but seeing the ever so cheerful and supporting Reki being down like this really hurt. I understand what he's going through, seeing someone grow at a much higher pace than yourself and reaching heights you can only dream of is really hard, even if you love this person. You can clearly see that Reki is fighting the growing jealousy, but in the end his own insecurities and fears got the better of him. I think it's good that he distanced himself from Langa before they can hurt each other beyond repair, but he could've chosen better words than he did. Trying to make Langa feel bad because of the broken promise won't do them any good, but I think he'll realize this himself in the future. I hope that Reki will become stronger, both mentally and in his skating and that he finds his confidence again. I also sincerely hope that Langa won't burn himself while trying to defeat Adam. |
Mika-taicho said: elany said: Also there's a subset of people here who apparently can't comprehend somebody being the main character and not being The Best at whatever the show is about. Like, in what way does him being an average skateboarder make him less of a MC? It's not like the show ever pretended it's going to be about Reki becoming the skating hokage or whatever, why is anybody surprised when the show went in a different direction? I'd say the show is doing the bare minimum to be slightly more complex than your standard shounen fare but man some people can't even deal with that it seem uh idk abt that. I would say people are mad at how the show treats Reki and shove Langa's genius down the viewer's throat. It's a waste of time at this point because we understood that ages ago. It's fine if he was an average skater but the show has been literally and metaphorically kicking him at absolutely any opportunity. The stuff said this ep were like extra harsh and rude and I fail to see the reason why. Plus I don't think the show even did a good job at showing Reki is just an average skater bc he barely shows his proper skating lol Getting blinded by some fireworks from Shadow and then attacked by Adam doesn't rly tell much if someone is a good skater or not imo. Oh yeah, I can totally see why people would be annoyed by that. It's clear what the show was trying to do, but it did go about it with all the subtlety of a fireworks display and I can't blame anybody for getting irked by that. Personally I didn't mind it that much bc, I mean, it's not like every other part of this show isn't over the top too, so might as well. But that's not really what I was talking about. I was more so talking about the attitude that Reki has to be a good skateboarder to deserve his MC status, which to me are two completely unrelated concepts. He could be literally the worst skater in the world and he'd still be a good protagonist of this particular story, bc the plot doesn't hinge on his skateboarding skills. Like, saying "why did they make him bad at skateboarding, isn't he the mc" makes no sense bc those two things are largely unrelated. (as for the actual level of his abilities, i admittedly never really thought about this i suppose. being a snowboarder myself i could somewhat judge his skill level from the start and by some point just figured that anybody who even participates in S is at least average but probably above that. thinking back on it, the show could've established his abilities a bit better, but maybe they took the same approach to this as i; anything that's Not As Good As Langa would do, and the specifics don't matter lmao) |
| Wow, what a tearjerker episode after the most relaxing episode...💀 It was so painful to watch Reki like this. Reki's situation is completely realistic. I never teared up watching a sports anime, I had to watch the ending with blurry eyes...Among all the sports anime I have watched Reki is the the most relatable. It's not just in sports but this situation can happen in any kind of field or career. A similar thing is happening with Langa and Reki like what happened with Miya and his friends. I just hope Reki and Langa's friendship doesn't break because of this. Those shits calling Reki a lowlife is too much. If not because of Reki Langa would've never started skateboarding. The cringy character is here from a cringy looking helicopter... This anime portrays both the point of view of the one surpassing and the point of view of the one who still can't get it done even after trying their hardest. Really well done. This anime might become the first sports anime I might give 9 or 10. |
| The part where Reki was like: "Don't you know I-" to Langa- ahhhh. I wonder what he was going to say, poor Reki :(( |
| It's been interesting from the start to have one main character be the natural prodigy and the other be someone who has to work hard to even keep up, and I'm not surprised to see that come to a head here. It's easy enough for Reki to be supportive of Langa while he's able to take on the mentor role, but when he's surpassed he just can't handle it because of how everyone else acts about it. And Langa's fascination with ADAM just seals the deal and pushes the two even further apart, as Reki is understandably controlled by his fear of serious injury for himself or his friends. That aside, I'm not exactly sure what the ADAM subplot away from skateboarding is for or how it's going to connect to everything else, but I'm sure it's not being done without reason. |
| Reki has finally started to feel inferior, and that's not a nice feeling at all. Langa was rather shocked when Reki told him how he felt. I wonder what Langa will do? Meanwhile, ADAM's tournament is about to begin, but there is some legal trouble, where he expects his servant Tadashi to take the blame. Will Tadashi grow some balls? |
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| The show has been slowly leading to this moment, and it was heartbreaking :( It's so easy to understand what Reki is going through and the fact that it's so hard for him to explain to Langa how he feels. Reki knows it's not Langa's fault, and he doesn't want to take it out on him, but that's not easy to do. The promise part is a little weird, but that only came about due to Reki's fear of Adam anyway. I can't imagine how exactly they'll fix their friendship after this. Just looking forward to the tournament instead :> |
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Mika-taicho said: elany said: Oh yeah, I can totally see why people would be annoyed by that. It's clear what the show was trying to do, but it did go about it with all the subtlety of a fireworks display and I can't blame anybody for getting irked by that. Personally I didn't mind it that much bc, I mean, it's not like every other part of this show isn't over the top too, so might as well. But that's not really what I was talking about. I was more so talking about the attitude that Reki has to be a good skateboarder to deserve his MC status, which to me are two completely unrelated concepts. He could be literally the worst skater in the world and he'd still be a good protagonist of this particular story, bc the plot doesn't hinge on his skateboarding skills. Like, saying "why did they make him bad at skateboarding, isn't he the mc" makes no sense bc those two things are largely unrelated. That's fair, tho I do kinda understand their sentiment to SOME EXTENT since it's largely the anime's fault. The whole shtick is to skate etc. so when a character doesn't do that and the show does not bother to emphasize anything else they might have going for them that would be relevant to the main plot, then such attitudes jump out. One could argue Reki's thing would be the vast knowledge abt skateboards and the making of them but the show didnt particularly care for that after like 2-3 episodes. Only Langa praised him on some random occassions but no one else in this show rly gave a shit about it so. I honestly dont know how they wanna fit Reki here (especially in this tournament arc) after 7 episodes of like not rly committing to giving him anything significant to do or have going for him (related to plot). Ig we will see. Hmm y'know, I would actually argue that Langa improving exponentially and Reki getting the short end of the stick is what he's got going on. That's what his character arc has been centred around and that's been like. Half of the plot so far anyway. It's just not a particularly prestigious role to play or fun to watch a character you like be put through. But combined with everything you said, how he hasn't really had anything to fall back on in an anime that's all about skating, actually makes me more interested in how they're gonna resolve his personal issues and what the role of the tournament will be for his arc - and vice versa, what role he'll serve in the tournament. Honestly I really hope they do something with his board building hobby and focus on that more, because then we'd get almost like a racer/car mechanic duo, which I'd totally dig. That being said, I can see how that, all of what I just said, really, could be downright disappointing if you'd rather just have some cool, badass skating, which is probably what we all initially started watching for anyway. |
| I know it's not gonna happen but I'd love to see Tadashi beat Adam in the tournament lmao Nice to see Reki get some more spotlight. |
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| Well that boring part of "MC is in his Emo phase" is here, I hope that we will get the redemption in the next episode no not it will be hard to wrap everything in the remaining episodes. |
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| Reki just an idiot for me, I can understand the feeling when you don't have the talent to keep pace with the best I got this feeling a lot in my life, but at least I can't be mad at someone just because he is better than me, life not fair you have to move on not cry like a bitch |
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| No. Just no. Just No. |
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| Reki is being selfish and jealous. I understand why, still he is frustrating. I wish he'd just be honest with how he feels. He is self-sabotaging, in spite of how often Langa tried to help him. This arc is meant to strengthen their bond and grow Reki as a character, though it only feels forced. In the first half of the ep, when random skaters shit-talked Reki right in front of him, I couldn't take it seriously. It seemed so unrealistic like everything is staged. I like this show a lot when it doesn't take itself too seriously. Free! had the same issue. |
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| Damn, the angst was real this episode. With only a few months of practice, Langa managed to surpass Reki, who has been skating for years, and has even created an immense gap between them by now. Due to this, Reki feels inferior to him and I can't really blame him for that. His outburst towards... basically himself was totally understandable but hopefully, he will come back stronger once he sorts out these conflicted feelings. This said, looking forward to this tournament the scumbag of ADAM is planning. |
SouthRzVaFeb 21, 2021 10:33 PM
| Ohhh no this episode was not okay. I really hope Reki comes to terms with stuff so everything goes back to how it was. If not, my whole rating for this show will be affected. ADAM is so awful to poor Tadashi. It was nice seeing JOE and Cherry Blossom in uniforms. That lip ring tho. |
| So Reki is doing the same thing to Langa that Miya's old friends did to him, huh. I get where he is coming from, but it's not Langa's fault that he's that talented and that people like him. I also doubt he wouldn't have defended Reki, if he had heard what those dudes at S said about him. But it's still the most realistic reaction, so I don't blame Reki at all. It was great to see Joe, Cherry and Adam when they were younger. Cherry was a total punk haha. |
StormxNightmareFeb 22, 2021 1:47 PM
There's no possible way you can steal my heart    I want to drown in this sweet Melancholy |
| The downward spiral for Reki continues as he continues doubt himself while Langa continues to shine as he keeps getting better and better. He finally realizes that he is no where near Adam or Langa's level of skateboarding and he's officially hit rock bottom. I also think that Reki lashing out at Langa was uncalled for since Langa was standing in the rain waiting on him. While Reki was trying to copy what Langa was doing Langa was wondering where he was at. It's obvious that Reki has not gotten over loosing to Adam and he's basically projecting his fears and insecurities on Lagna who's not afraid Adam and gets a rush of energy whenever he skates against Adam. |
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| *Reki sees Langa do some inhuman god like skating skill* Reki: Why does the writer like Langa more? :( *depressed mode activated* |
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| I get how Reki feeks:( Hope he gets stronger after this. lol at Adam's entrance. Adam looks way happier while skating then being in his normal life. Rich people issues.. Poor langa and reki. |
| I just hope that Reki gets better or even as good as Langa does. Thing is this whole time, he has been skateboarding according to his style which is kinda the standard style for skateboarding. He then tries to grasp other peoples' skating style such as Miya's edge grind or whatever it is to defeat Adam. I think that he could develop his own style or something. If that happens then great! If it doesnt but still he gets back together with Langa as a friend, then thats also great! |
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| Ah yes this was bound to happen. Reki finally broke, the normie can't keep up with the genius. I hope he can get better at skating but maybe that's asking for too much. |
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| Reki was so selfish, he couldn't accept the fact that Arya had been snowboarding for longer. So, Arya didn't take long to learn to skateboard. I was a little upset why Reki forbade Arya not to go against Adam just because of his past. |
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| SO GAY!!! we've seen Reki's worst moments! LQ Reki x Langa! come-on just they should just made-up and go all the way M-2-M! LELZ |
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| Wahhhh I feel bad for Reki T_____T Ranga outshine him, actually he didn't skate that much, he's more a "mechanic" of skateboarding but I understand him so much.. feeling left out in the group (┳Д┳) it looks like break up scene :(  |
| Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. |
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